The Great Space Case
Title | The Great Space Case PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Beauregard |
Publisher | Millbrook Press |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1512458155 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! It's Space Week at Camp Dakota! The first team to answer three astronomy riddles will get to attend a top secret "big event." With space ace Angie leading them, team Astro Explorers is a shoo-in for first place. So why is team Star Troopers solving the riddles first? The Astro Explorers had better think fast if they want the big prize. Look in the back of the book for experiments and more to help you become a science detective too!
Space Case
Title | Space Case PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Gibbs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2014-09-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442494883 |
It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.” Like his fellow lunarnauts—otherwise known as Moonies—living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon. And he’s bored out of his mind. Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time—and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Everyone agrees Dr. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. But Dr. Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it’s a secret that could change everything for the Moonies—a secret someone just might kill to keep...
Waste of Space
Title | Waste of Space PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Gibbs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1481477803 |
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.--Provided by publisher.
The Twin Powers
Title | The Twin Powers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lipsyte |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547973357 |
Identical twins and mirror opposites Tom and Eddie share a "road trip" between planets and risk everything to save their father from the alien scientists.
Spaced Out
Title | Spaced Out PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Gibbs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1481423371 |
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson's a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he's faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan, who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who's hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
Space Case
Title | Space Case PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Marshall |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0140547045 |
Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor winner James Marshall, this Halloween story is sure to entertain! When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot in this hilarious picture book.
Dark Skies
Title | Dark Skies PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Deudney |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2020-03-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 019090335X |
Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.